L’viv, UKRAINE — Wednesday this city will mark the sesquicentennial birthday of what some Ukrainian Catholics are not abashed to call their Moses, one of the great lions of the 20th century, Andrey Sheptytsky. On the day I arrived, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), which he led for 44 years, rejoiced at the news that the Vatican had published a decree declaring him worthy of sainthood. Much deserved and much delayed, the decree comes just in time for Wednesday’s commemoration of his birth on July 29, 1865, during which a major monument will be erected in a civic park …read more
Source: National Post
